Along the way Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world - and in ourselves. Buy Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, ISBN: 0547985630 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable and often hidden potential - including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. Fascinated by the sport of freediving - in which competitors descend to great depths on a single breath - James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. My first narrative nonfiction book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was released in the United States and UK in June 2014.

It's in large part about freediving, which is profoundly disturbing as a competitive activity, but sounds incredible done sensibly, and about human bodies' adaptive responses, and also about the extraordinary environments under the sea. Jules Vernes Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea meets Born to Run and.

A Scientific American Recommended Read.ĭeep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. Pretty amazing book by the author of Breath, which I read recently but might have to reconsider in the light of this. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.Īn Amazon Best Science Book of 2014. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves With author James Nestor.

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